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Fourth-generation medical school graduate carries on family tradition

Counting Lindsay Jinkins’ grandfather and father, Lindsay is the eighth member of the Jinkins family to graduate from UTMB. “It was kind of a thing in the family,” says Lindsay’s father, Dr. Wiley Junior Jinkins III. “You went into medicine at UTMB.” Then he adds with a smile, “There were no other considerations.” [Note: This article was written by Raul Reyes of UTMB’s Office of Marketing and Communications. Send your story ideas to public.affairs@utmb.edu.]